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Priorities for Tuberculosis Bacteriology Services in Low-Income Countries International Union. (Chinese edition)

H. L. Rieder, A. Van Deun, K. M. Kam, et. al International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (2007)

Socio-Economic Impact of Ebola Virus Disease in West African Countries

UN Development Group (2015)

A call for national and regional containment, recovery and prevention

Access to Heart Failure Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Analysis of Essential Medicines Lists, Availability, Price, and Affordability

Agarwal, A.; Husain, M.J.; Datta, B. et al. Circulation: Heart Failure (2022) CC

Heart failure (HF) is a leading global public health problem with >64 million prevalent cases globally. Patients with HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) from low- and middle-income countries experience a 22% to 58% higher 1-year mortality rat ... more

Access to Cancer Therapeutics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Ruff, P.; Sana-Al-Sukhun, C. Blanchard, et al. (2016) C2

2016 ASCO EDUCATIONAL BOOK | asco.org/edbo

Skills development for youth living with disabilities in four developing countries

Kett, M. UNESCO (2012) CC

Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2012 Reports from Kenya, Sierra Leone, China and Sri Lanka

From response to recovery: Supporting children and communities in Ebola-affected countries

Plan International (2015)

This policy brief is targeted at national governments, donors and regional and international actors to support Ebola-affected countries to transition from emergency response to recovery.

Guidance on temporary malaria control measures in Ebola-affected countries

World Health Organization (2014)

Malaria is a prevalent cause of febrile illnesses in areas with high transmission, and its clinical presentation overlaps with initial signs of Ebola disease. For this reason, the effectiveness of the Ebola response in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone can be optimized through the deployment of targe ... more

Human African trypanosomiasis cases diagnosed in non-endemic countries (2011– 2020)

Franco. J.R.; G. Cecchi, G. Priotto, et al. (2022) CC

PLoS Negl Trop Dis 16(11): e0010885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010885 HAT diagnosis in non-endemic countries is rare and can be challenging, but alertness and surveillance must be maintained to contribute to WHO’s elimination goals. ... more

Mental Health Service Provision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Shanaya Rathod, Narsimha Pinninti, Muhammed Irfan, et al. (2017) CC

Health Services Insights Volume 10: 1–7

Packages of Care for Schizophrenia in Low- and Middle- Income Countries

J. de Jesus Mari, D. Razzouk, R. Thara, et al. (2009) CC

PLoS Medicine Vol. 6 no. 10 (2009) e1000165

Early childhood development and children wir disabilities in developing countries

Rune J. Simeonsson (2000) C2

HIV/AIDS Knowledge Among Women Across Seven Post-Soviet Countries

H. Zainiddinov; N. Habibov Central Asian Journal of Global Health; University of Pittsburgh (2018) C2

Vol. 7, No. 1 (2018) | ISSN 2166-7403 (online) DOI 10.5195/cajgh.2018.295 | http://cajgh.pitt.edu

Do Disability Inequalities Grow with Development? Evidence from 40 Countries

Lewis, E.; Mitra, S.; Yap, J. Sustainability (2022) CC

With development, people around the world have become wealthier and live longer. At the same time, development can lead to growing inequalities within and between nations. This paper analyses inequalities related to disability and how they vary across coun ... more

Interim Guidance for Healthcare Workers Providing Care in West African Countries Affected by the Ebola Outbreak: Limiting Heat Burden While Wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2014)

Please read the text online on the CDC website http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/limiting-heat-burden.html

Donor Government Funding for HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries in 2022

Wexler A.; Kates J,; UNAIDS (2023) C2

This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address the HIV response in low- and middle-income countries in 2022, the latest year available, as well as trends over time. It includes both bilateral funding from donors and their ... more

Mental health systems in selected low- and middle-income countries: a WHO-AIMS cross-national analysis

World Health Organization WHO WHO (2009) C_WHO

Data on the essential building blocks of mental health systems, including mental health governance, financing, service delivery, human resources and information, are reported. For mental health planning, it is important to know not only the level of resources in these six areas, but also how thos ... more

Devolution of Healthcare Services in Kenya: Lessons learnt from other Countries

KPMG Africa (2013) C1

Preplanned Studies: Incidence Tendency Analysis on Type 2 Diabetes in 4 Asian Countries — China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, 1990–2019

Shi, W.; Wang, Q.; Zhang, J.; et al. China CDC Weekly, CCDC Weekly (2021) C_CDC

What is already known about this topic? Roughly 80% of the global disease burden caused by diabetes comes from low-and-middle income countries, and 60% of diabetics are located in Asia; 6 of the top 10 co ... more

Review on palliative care with focus on 18 high tuberculosis priority countries

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Europe (2021) C_WHO

Tuberculosis (‎TB)‎ is, and should be, a curable disease; however, each year significant numbers of patients acquire or develop drug-resistant TB, which has a much lower cure rate. Patients with drug-resistant TB have a high prevalence of symptoms; hence, staff caring for these patients should h ... more